From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 10 15:59:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA07140 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 15:59:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan@dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA07099 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 15:59:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA15114; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 17:59:03 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Message-ID: <19980710175903.A14878@emsphone.com> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 17:59:03 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: "Randy A. Katz" , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Backups - Many FreeBSD Machines References: <3.0.5.32.19980710065934.0533cea0@ccsales.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93i In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980710065934.0533cea0@ccsales.com>; from "Randy A. Katz" on Fri Jul 10 06:59:34 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In the last episode (Jul 10), Randy A. Katz said: > Hello, > > I have around 40 production servers running FreeBSD. Each machine > uses around 3-4 Gigabytes of space that needs to be backed up (on 3 > partitions). I need some suggestions as to what to do, here are some > of my options: For your situation, Amanda and a high-capacity (DLT or mammoth) tape drive might be a good solution. It will do regular dump-style backups, stagger the level 0 dumps across all the tapes in your backup sets, and modify dump levels based on disk space. It looks like a great system for backing up many machines with a relatively small amount of storage per-filesystem. Now, if anyone could tell me how to back up my servers, with 2 60-gig, 4 45-gig, and 7 20-gig partitions, onto this DLT 7000 autoloader I have here, I would be ecstatic. :) -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message